The Honor Committee is hosting a series of events March 13-19 to inform students about the work of the Committee and to provide enjoyable activities before the current Committee finishes its term in April.
“Our committee is very excited to offer a diverse array of what we hope would be very meaningful events prior to the expiration of our term in April,” fourth-year College student and Honor Committee Chair Matt West said in an interview following the Committee’s meeting Sunday evening. “It’ll be a good opportunity for our Committee to interact directly with students, with faculty, in meaningful dialogue before our term ends.”
The events will start Monday with a lecture given by Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer in Jefferson Hall.
“I think the Honor lecture series is going to be a really great way to get in touch with people who are within the community and outside of the college atmosphere to understand that Honor does go beyond the college atmosphere,” said Katherine Graham, a fourth-year Architecture student and Honor Committee vice chair of community relations.
The Committee will host two events Tuesday, starting with a discussion on intersectionality with the Queer Student Union and Feminism is For Everyone in the Commonwealth Room in Newcomb Hall. Graham said she is heading the event.
“[QSU and FIFE are] going to touch on the intersectionality between those two communities,” Graham said. “That’s going to start a series of events that we will be co-sponsoring with QSU on intersectionality between QSU, as well as a lot of minority groups. So that will be probably a once a month event.”
The Committee will present the film “Dead Poets Society” Tuesday evening in Newcomb Theater. West said the film is related to the focuses of the week.
“We thought that, given the fact that it is a very popular and classic movie, but also one that does incorporate themes of integrity and moral conduct generally, that it would be a good film to screen,” West said.
The Committee is sponsoring workout classes in the AFC all day Wednesday.
“I think the idea was to more broadly to promote both physical and mental health and [recognize] that as an organization that is very much invested in the academic environment at U.Va., that we could make an impact by demonstrating commitment to the importance of maintaining good health, both mentally and physically,” West said.
Wednesday evening the Committee will co-host an Honor dinner dialogue with the Minority Rights Coalition in the Rotunda multipurpose room. Graham is heading the dinner dialogue.
“[The MRC event] will be shortly followed by an ongoing co-sponsorship which we have with the MRC regarding transparency as well as accountability to hopefully help us better articulate what we are doing … when people are not able to come to the open Committee meetings,” Graham said.
The Committee will host a faculty meet-and-greet lunch Thursday afternoon in Newcomb 480 and a mindfulness session with Nursing Assoc. Prof. Samuel Green Friday afternoon in Newcomb Commonwealth Room.
With no Saturday events, the Committee will invite students to their regular meeting Sunday night at 8 p.m. in Newcomb 480.
“I hope that people do come to the open Honor Committee meeting because I would love to see more people here and a better transparency between us and the community,” Graham said.
Graham said Honor wanted to move beyond the idea of Honor being only inside the classroom.
“We really wanted to … figure out how we can highlight moments that people are being naturally honorable within our community and work to highlight that and expand it,” Graham said. “That is the goal: to reinforce a community of choice and a community of caring that works with respect for each other.”
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